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Here are the 9 surprising facts. There is detail for each fact at the link.
  1. You produce about 500 to 1500 milliliters of gas per day, and expel it in 10 to 20 farts
  2. 99 percent of the gas you produce does not smell
  3. Gum and soda can make you fart more
  4. Farting is the result of a healthy, complex ecosystem in your intestines
  5. There's a simple reason why you don't mind the smell of your own farts
  6. Yes, you can light a fart on fire
  7. No, you can't hold a fart in until it disappears
  8. Beano cuts down on gas production by starving these bacteria
  9. Starving your fart-producing bacteria is not a good idea

1 posted on 12/05/2014 11:40:21 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant
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10. Is it possible to ‘kick-start’ a fart by pulling someone’s finger?


2 posted on 12/05/2014 11:46:28 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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3 posted on 12/05/2014 11:46:53 PM PST by ansel12
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Benjamin Franklin would approve.


5 posted on 12/05/2014 11:51:39 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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99% of gas doesn’t smell? Where did they get this data, a fishing village in China?


7 posted on 12/05/2014 11:54:50 PM PST by wastedyears (I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
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8 posted on 12/05/2014 11:55:55 PM PST by smoothsailing (Mel Kaminsky for President!!!)
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My wife burps but rarely toots and if she does you only hear it if she’s asleep

My old girl American Bulldog could burn your eyes farting...my Rott not as bad

My boys seem to enjoy competing

I rarely rip except when I wake up

All women I’ve known toot quietly but some have been known to toot at the most embarassing intimate moments

Spinners and yoga chicks worst offenders


10 posted on 12/06/2014 12:04:45 AM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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99 percent of the gas you produce does not smell

I'm sure there are lots of people that would disagree with that one.

DANG!

11 posted on 12/06/2014 12:05:43 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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You know though...my ol’ Aunt Jane entered an international fart contest....she let such a blast with such a distinct picante order(which is still lingering over Lake Erie) that even the Russian judge had to score her a 10.(which he then had her kidnapped by the Russian secret police for use as a sonic cannon against Chechnyan rebels...better than a neutron weapon with no radio active fallout that could be detected by any international monitoring groups. The UN radiation monitoring groups are just a pain in the royal Russian borscht, if you get my drift. Just don’t get into my Aunt Jane’s drift...if you get my meaning! Anyway they pay her well and when not on duty she lives in a nice dascha.... very far away from anyone else.)

PS:Of course it wasn’t called a ‘fart contest’...it was called the International Invitational Voluntary Flatulent Release Competition; judged by 4 categories....decibel amplitude, volumetric measurements and/or length of time of release, wetness vs dryness(dryer is better), and finally lethality. Under the lethality judging, special rules mitigate for lack of decibel noise range if lethality was rated quite high. This of course became known as the stealth or SBD(silent but deadly) clause and because of the SBD clause; a few previous winners were able to win, despite lack of decibel amplitude and volume


14 posted on 12/06/2014 12:18:42 AM PST by mdmathis6 ("trapped by hyenas, Bill had as much life expectancy as a glass table at a UVA Frat house party!/s)
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hmmm, crop dusting and depth charging ... I miss the fun we had at work.


20 posted on 12/06/2014 12:33:12 AM PST by Usagi_yo (Coming events caste their shadow beforehand.)
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Marking, for someone else to read.


29 posted on 12/06/2014 1:32:57 AM PST by logos (Only an educated intellectual will consistently misread plain language.)
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How much did THIS stupid study cost us taxpayers ... ?

/8^)

30 posted on 12/06/2014 1:39:53 AM PST by knarf
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Great Crepitation Contest of 1946

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FyD95Hv7CU


32 posted on 12/06/2014 3:23:52 AM PST by gasport (Immigration reform means arriving in air-conditioned comfort.)
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Little known fact outside of medicine:

Don’t try to sneak one past a general surgeon while he is doing abdominal surgery. Doung so will cause all manner of consternation.

Why? He will think he accidentally nicked the patient’s bowel.


33 posted on 12/06/2014 4:07:45 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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This should pretty much be the last word on the subject...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSKQ3ZNQ_O8


38 posted on 12/06/2014 4:46:15 AM PST by BRK
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I once bent over to pick up a book in class and expelled a vast amount of gas, and very loud it was, my friend in direct line flew out of his chair, rolling across the aisles...

He helped alleviat the embarassment.


40 posted on 12/06/2014 4:51:40 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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a day???


42 posted on 12/06/2014 4:55:07 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Pointing out dereliction of duty is NOT fear mongering, especially in a panDEMic)
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Humans got nothing on my two labs in the gas department.


43 posted on 12/06/2014 4:56:59 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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This is not a laughing matter when someone’s social life is ruined and the Dr’s cannot get to the bottom of the problem with diet changes,over the counter drugs, etc.. When you stop going out to eat, stop going to church, stop going to social gatherings because of excessive gas, it almost effects the mind. Have seen three different Gastroenterologists, Internist and have also talk to my Oncologist. They have suggested various things but nothing has helped. Has anyone had this severe problem and what did they do to overcome this.


44 posted on 12/06/2014 5:10:29 AM PST by YukonGreen
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My grandmother used to fart alot. Whenever I would say “Aw gramma”, she’d always reply “well, better out than in”........


47 posted on 12/06/2014 5:36:41 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (“We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.”)
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Uhhh... wow. Thanks for sharing.


50 posted on 12/06/2014 5:57:16 AM PST by Kenton
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